📚 Pregnancy resources

• Bay Area organizations

  • Natural Resources (SF) —30+ year-old community organization that offers classes, access to doulas, birth equipment & baby gear rentals, and more! A local gem.

  • Brilliant Births (Berkeley) — a community of birth and postpartum professionals offering doula support, childbirth education and other services.

  • The Nesting Spot (San Jose) — provides a wide range of education, support, and wellness options

  • Blossom Birth & Family (Palo Alto) — provides families with resources, services and support in the journey from preconception to postpartum and beyond

  • Yes to Birth! with Rachel Yellin — childbirth classes & relaxation audios w/ SF-based educator

  • Little Seeds Family (East Bay) — provides new & expanding families with resources, educational support, and community

  • Planned Parenthood (Redwood City, Mountain View, San Mateo, San Jose, Hayward, San Francisco, etc.) — provides pregnancy testing and planning, abortion services, prenatal and postpartum services, and more.

• State & local programs and policies

  • The Abundant Birth Project — guaranteed income for eligible expectant mothers in Alameda & Contra Costa counties

  • Centering Pregnancy - midwifery-led group care and learning, available at select hospitals/healthcare locations in California

  • State of California paid family leave (PFL) policies

• Resources for Black/African-American families

  • Black Centering - midwifery-led group care based at UCSF

  • Embrace - “provides a deliberate, unapologetic, and communal approach to reclaim health and wellness for Black births, Black birthing families, and Black birth workers”

• Apps for tracking pregnancy / fetal development

  • Peanut

  • Flo Period & Pregnancy Tracker

• Books / guides on pregnancy & motherhood

  • The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama by Koziol, Tenety & Spalding — I loved this pregnancy book the most of any I read. The formatting of the book is beautiful, the tone of the writing was warm and inviting, and the content (including various checklists) was very helpful and informative. - Emily

  • The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Genevieve Howland

  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff

  • Expecting Better by Emily Oster

  • Cribsheet by Emily Oster

  • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones

• Books on the history & technologies of motherhood

  • Designing Motherhood by Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick

  • Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin

• Blogs on birth and parenthood

  • ParentData

  • What to Expect

  • Plus Size Birth

  • Motherly

• Podcasts on birth and parenthood

  • Birthful

  • Orgasmic Birth

  • Just This (SF)

• TV / movies about infant development, from birth to adulthood

  • Babies (2020) television series

  • Babies (2010) movie

  • Old Enough! (2010) television series

  • Up (1964 - present) documentary film series, with episodes made every 7 years